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Identifying data intensive culprits within mobile apps

Rating: Alcatel-Lucent has the black box to do it

It's no secret that mobile operators has little idea what apps their mobile data networks are actually carrying. Alcatel-Lucent, however, claims its  9900 Wireless Network Guardian (WNG) device discover this in real time.

Mobile CRM is high priority says RIM

Rating: Mapping and presence improve its attraction

Crazy as it may seem, 58 per cent of respondents to a study commissioned by RIM from Forrester reported that putting CRM apps onto mobile phones was a key part of their IT strategy for 2009.

Be a network nastie from the pub

Rating: Use an iPhone and Meru's network console

It's a network manager from Hell's (NMFH's) dream come true. Dictate to your network users via that fashion icon – the Apple iPhone – without having to return to your desk.

Agito's RoamAnywhere goes heavy on Presence

Rating: location and context condensed into single icon

Following on its success with Wi-Fi handovers see here, Agito's latest release of RoamAnywhere (3.0) with major on users' 'presence' based on both location and 'context'.

mSync from Newact: revisited

Rating: This review first appeared April 15th 2008

Whilst mSync from Newact holds plenty of promise, currently [2008] it fails to deliver on most of them. The software aims to be the best application for syncing a handset with the web.

A close look at Vufone from Newact

Rating: Manage all your handset's data from the web

For anyone who's ever wanted to backup or manipulate the wealth of information that now resides on a mobile handset, Vufone is one answer to their prayers.

Holes in Symbian signing exposed

Rating: Strange, shouldn't those errors have shown up before?

By accident I appear to have turned software tester for an app which runs on the latest version of Symbian phones. I discovered a bug which shouldn't have been there. Addressbook based, it is.

Truphone transforms Apple's iPhone

Rating: Brings Twitter, IM and even Skype calls to the party

What a transformation the very latest version of Truphone for the Apple iPhone makes. It now supports a whole range of IM clients plus Twitter and Skype. Fantastic.

Video ad boredom threshold is sub 30 seconds

An in-house study by Mywaves has found that consumers aren't as tolerant of a pre-roll advertisement format as long as 30 seconds.

Navteq attracts 115 LBS apps developers

If Nokia recently paid $8 billion dollars for a company, you'd have to take some notice – wouldn't you? So I caved into perusing details of Navteq's Global LBS Challenge competition. Some of the apps look genuinely useful, though.

This particular competition is for bods based in the EMEA region so it's fairly impressive that no fewer than 115 bothered to enter. Although the top prize winner will receive €35,000 ($51,000) in cash and one three-year Navteq territory license valued at €225,000 ($330,000). So that's a bit of an incentive.